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Rejwan, Nissim.

The last Jews in Baghdad remembering a lost homeland / [electronic resource] : Nissim Rejwan ; foreword by Joel Beinin. - 1st ed. - Austin : University of Texas Press, c2004. - xxii, 242 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes index.

In old Baghdad -- The Rejwan tribe -- Mother and the placebo effect -- Naʻīma -- Early initiations -- Schooling -- The great crash and US -- Hesqail Abul ʻAlwa hires a helper -- Living in sexual deprivation -- Idle days -- Distorted visions -- Rashid ʻAli's coup and its aftermath -- Bookshop days -- A deepening friendship -- The start : movies, book reviews -- Out in the cold -- Disposing of a library -- End of a community -- Farewells and reunions.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2009.
Available via World Wide Web.
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Subjects--Personal Names:
Rejwan, Nissim.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Jews--Iraq--Baghdad--Biography.
Jews--Social life and customs.--Iraq--Baghdad
Jews--Social conditions--Iraq--Baghdad--20th century.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Baghdad (Iraq)--Ethnic relations.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: DS135.I713 / R447 2004eb

Dewey Class. No.: 956.7/47004924/092 B